American furniture designers : 1900-2020 / Oscar P. Fitzgerald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fitzgerald, Oscar P.

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Furniture design--United States--History--20th century.

Furniture design.

Furniture design--United States--History--21st century.

Furniture designers--United States--History--20th century.

Furniture designers.

Furniture designers--United States--History--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 pages) : illustrations

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2023.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Campus eBookstore Inc - CEI, 2023.

Summary:

The 20th century furniture is hot. American Furniture Designers: 1900 to the Present highlights the furniture produced by the 20 most important American furniture designers of the 20th and early 21st centuries plus a selection of the best-known European designers whose work is sold by Knoll International and Herman Miller. The designers are organized into five chapters. Introductions to each section summarize the evolution of furniture design as it evolved through the 20th and early 21st centuries. The book begins with the Arts and Crafts era before World War I; moves into the interwar period when Modernism gained a foothold in America; continues through the Postwar heyday of Mid-century Modern; highlights the furniture from the 1970s and into the 21st century with a focus on the foremost promoters of modern furniture, Knoll International and Herman Miller; and concludes with a selection of the top Studio Furniture makers and their innovative creations.The book focuses on the leading American designers from each of these periods including Gustav Stickley and Charles Rohlfs during the Arts and Crafts movement, Paul Frankl and Gilbert Rohde in the interwar period, Charles and Ray Eames and George Nelson for Mid- century Modern, and Wendell Castle and George Nakashima for Studio Furniture to name just a few. All their furniture is explained and profusely illustrated with 280 color photos. For anyone curious about the modern material culture that surrounds them, the book will explain everything about American furniture from 1900 into the 21st century: when it was made, where it was made, who made it, what it was made of, how it was designed, how long it was in production, and how the furniture related to its contemporaries.

Contents:

Foreword / by Christopher Long

The American Arts and Crafts Movement: 1900-1916. Charles Rohlfs ; Charles and Henry Greene ; Gustav Stickley ; Frank Lloyd Wright

Modernism : A Tough Sell in America: 1920-1941. Paul Frankl ; Gilbert Rohde ; Kem Weber ; Donald Deskey

Mid-Century Modern : 1940 through the 1970s. George Nelson ; Charles and Ray Eames ; Florence Knoll ; Edward J. Wormley ; Russel Wright ; Paul Evans

Modernism, Postmodernism, and into the 21st Century : Knoll International and Herman Miller. Knoll Designers after Florence Knoll : 1965 to the present ; Herman Miller designers post-George Nelson : 1920 to the present

Studio Furniture : into the 21st century. George Nakashima ; Sam Maloof ; Wendell Castle ; Garry Knox Bennett ; Tommy Simpson ; John Cederquist.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-261) and index.

Print Version Record.

ISBN:

979-82-16-40725-6

1-5381-3563-9

OCLC:

1474078622